Submission of PDF

If you are submitting a PDF document, please make sure to
follow these guidelines:

Submit one PDF file including all text and figures. PDF can
efficiently include photographs imported in JPEG format. We do
not permit submissions that include multiple PDF files, or PDF
files in combination with other file types.

You must ensure that all non-standard fonts are included and
that outline (TrueType/Type1) rather than bitmap (Type3) fonts are used.
In Adobe Distiller and many other products this is referred to as
compatibility mode and will ensure that the PDF document
is as portable as possible.

Note: a PDF file created from a TeX/LaTeX file will be rejected. There
are good reasons why arXiv insists on
TeX/LaTeX source if it is available. arXiv produces PDF automatically
from all TeX submitted source. For information on viewing the PDF
provided by arXiv, see our PDF browsing help.

While PDF can be very useful, it has some of the same
limitations as PostScript. Including large PostScript figures
in PDF can hamper the display of the document so that it is
unusable. Authors should keep in mind that not everyone will have
a high-end machine, and they should compose their documents
accordingly.

Creating PDF

Many authoring applications can directly create or export as PDF. Freely
available examples include
OpenOffice.org Writer or
Google Docs.

Other authoring applications may require either a converter add-in or
post-processing to produce PDF. If you have a copy of Adobe Distiller
installed you should use that to create PDF. Otherwise, you might try
one of these free conversion utilities:

PrimoPDF — downloadable Windows
printer driver that writes output to a PDF file. (There is also a
PrimoPDF online service which accepts Word, RTF, ODF and other formats
but some font substitutions may occur).

CIB
PDF brewer is a downloadable Windows printer driver that writes output
to a PDF file. The free version has limited font support. Notably, MT
Extra is not supported.

(Please contact us if this information is out of date or if you can
suggest other free tools that are better.)

Copyright within PDF

Copyright statements of the author are permitted within the pdf, however
submissions containing journal copyright will be rejected, regardless of the
policies stated on the journal in question's website. Copyright statements
which prohibit or impair arXiv's redistribution license
will also be rejected. If explicit permission is given for open access
redistribution, these are permissible, though the prior rule regarding TeX/LaTeX
submissions will be enforced.

Note on IEEE submissions. Please note arXiv will currently take the 'Accepted' IEEE version but not the 'Published' IEEE version. For more information on IEEE policies please see: